Detailed Conference Schedule
[Further information is available on the tutorials, workshops, and the Interactive Arts Program.]
Note: The "Brave New Topics 2" session was rescheduled - it is now on Wednesday 2:00-3:30pm (and now called "Brave New Topics 1").
Monday, October 23, 2006
Noon-6:00pm: Interactive Arts Program Exhibition (at UCSB)
Full-day Tutorial (8:30am-5:30pm)
Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Applications
Jin Li
Half-day Tutorials: Morning (8:30am-noon)
Interactive Digital Television and Multimedia Systems
Pablo Cesar and Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
Flexible Modeling and Performance Debugging of Real-Time Embedded Multimedia Systems
Samarjit Chakraborty
Computer Audition: An introduction and research survey
Shlomo Dubnov
Recent developments in video compression standards and their impact on embedded platforms: from scalable to multi-view video coding
Iole Moccagatta
Half-day Tutorials: Afternoon (2:00pm-5:30pm)
Data Mining and Information Retrieval in Time Series/Multimedia Databases
Eamonn Keogh
Multimedia Content Protection
Dulce Ponceleon, Julian Cerruti
Semantic Indexing and Retrieval of Video
Marcel Worring, Cees Snoek
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
8:30-10:00am Conference opening remarks and Keynote presentation
Session Chair: Matthew Turk, UC Santa Barbara
Sensitivity Analysis: Unexpected Outcomes in Art and Engineering
Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley
10:00-10:30am Coffee break (sponsored by FXPAL)
10:30am-noon Best Papers Session
Session Chair: Wolfgang Klas, Univ. of Vienna
An Innovative Three-Dimensional User Interface for Exploring Music Collections Enriched with Meta-Information from the Web
Peter Knees, Markus Schedl, Tim Pohle, Gerhard Widmer
Tiling Slideshow
Jun-Cheng Chen, Wei-Ta Chu, Jin-Hau Kuo, Chung-Yi Weng, Ja-Ling Wu
Video Search Reranking via Information Bottleneck Principle
Winston Hsu, Lyndon Kennedy, Shih-Fu Chang
Noon-6:00pm: Interactive Arts Program Exhibition (at UCSB)
Shuttle vans available approximately hourly between hotel and UCSB
Noon-2:00pm Conference Lunch (sponsored by Microsoft Research)
Plaza Del Sol (outdoors plaza at the hotel)
Noon-4:00pm Short Papers Poster Session 1
Authors at posters 1:00-2:00pm and 3:30-4:00pm
Session Chair: Brian Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maximum Unfolded Embedding: Formulation, Solution and Application for Image Clustering
Huan Wang
An Efficient Approach to Generic Multimedia Adaptation
Joseph Thomas-Kerr
Atomic Topical Segments Detection for Instructional Videos
Ying Li
Building Concept Ontology for Medical Video Annotation
Jianping Fan
Real-time Automatic 3D Scene Generation from Natural Language Voice and Text Descriptions
Lee Seversky
Training Combination Strategy of Multi-stream Fused Hidden Markov Model for Audio-visual Affect Recognition
Zhihong Zeng
Fourth Frame Forums: Interactive Comics for Collaborative Learning
Andrew Gordon
Improving the Experience of Controlling Avatars in Camera-Based Games Using Physical Input
Na Li
Effective and Efficient Object-based Image Retrieval Using Visual Phrases
Qing-Fang Zheng Zheng
Music Emotion Classification: A Fuzzy Approach
Yi-Hsuan Yang
Shape from Regularities for Interactive 3D Reconstruction of Piecewise Planar Objects from Single Images
Zhenguo Li
To Construct Optimal Training Set For Video Annotation
Jinhui Tang
Low Complexity Controllable Scrambler/Descrambler for H.264/AVC in Compressed Domain
Ho-Jae Lee
Automatic Function selection for Large Scale Salient Object Detection
Yuli Gao
Tracking Users through a Projection Screen
Ismo Rakkolainen
3D Object Retrieval with Easy 3D Query Generation and Graph Based Relevance Feedback
Liangliang Cao
Does Ontology Help in Image Retrieval - A Comparison between Keyword, Text Ontology and Multi-Modality Ontology Approaches
Huan Wang
Automatic Document Orientation Detection and Categorization through Document Vectorization
Shijian Lu
Distortion-Aware Video Communication with Pipeline Forwarding
Mario Baldi
3D Model Retrieval Based on Volumetric Extended Gaussian Image and Hierarchical Self Organizing Map
Jiqi Zhang
On the Significance of Cluster-Temporal Browsing for Generic Video Retrieval a Statistical Analysis
Mika Rautiainen
Text Segmentation Based on Stroke Filter
Cheolkon Jung
Video Inpainting and Implant via Diversified Temporal Continuations
Timothy Shih
Synchronization of Multiple Video Recordings Based on Still Camera Flashes
Prarthana Shrestha
GVU-PROCAMS: Enabling Novel Projected Interfaces
Jay Summet
An Unsupervised Method for Clustering Images Based on their Salient Regions of Interest
Gustavo Borba
Quaternion Image Watermarking using the Spatio-Chromatic Fourier Coefficients Analysis
Tsz Kin Tsui
Supporting Guaranteed Continuous Media Streaming in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks with Link Availability Prediction
Min Qin
Transductive Inference using Multiple Experts for Brushwork Annotation in Paintings Domain
Yelizaveta Marchenko
Hybrid Watermarking for Improving Detector Performance
Won-gyum Kim
Design and Implementation of a Multi-stream CableCARD with a High-Speed DVB-Common Descrambler
Joon-Young Jung
News Video Search with Fuzzy Event Clustering using High-level Features
Shi-Yong Neo
Scalable Relevance Feedback Using Click-Through Data for Web Image Retrieval
En Cheng
Noon-4:00pm Arts Short Papers Poster Session 1
Authors at posters 1:00-2:00pm and 3:30-4:00pm
Session Chair: Marko Peljhan
Cyborglogging with Camera Phones: Steps Toward Equiveillance
Steve Mann, Raymond Lo, James Fung
The Andantephone: Teaching Music by Walking on Patio Stones with Sensors Activated by Sequential Foot Steps
Steve Mann
Interactive Immaterial Screen for Performing Arts
Ismo Rakkolainen
Interactive Composition, Performance and Music Generation
Paolo Bottoni, Stefano Faralli, Anna Labella, Mario Pierro, Claudio Scozzafava
Flow An Interactive AJAX-based Internet Information Requesting System
Yu-Chuan Tseng, Chia-Hsiang Lee
Talk2Me: The Art of Augmenting Conversations
Ann Morrison, Peta Mitchell, Ralf Muhlberger
1:30-2:00pm Arts Exhibit Overview
2:00-3:30pm Content 1: Multi-Modal Analysis
Session Chair: Marcel Worring, Univ. of Amsterdam
Segmentation, Categorization, and Identification of Commercial Clips from TV Streams Using Multi-modal Analysis
Ling-Yu Duan, Jinqiao Wang, Yantao Zheng, Jesse Jin, Hanqing Lu, Changsheng Xu
Multimodel Fusion using Learned Text Concepts for Image Categorization
Qiang Zhu, Mei-Chen Yeh, Kwang-Ting Cheng
Live Sports Event Detection Based on Broadcast Video and Web-casting Text
Changsheng Xu, Jinjun Wang, Yiqun Li, Kongwah Wan, Ling-Yu Duan
2:00-3:30pm Applications 1: Media Presentation
Session Chair: Gopal Pingali, IBM Research
Multimedia Thumbnails for Documents
Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, Siddharth Joshi
Video Retargeting: Automating Pan and Scan
Feng Liu, Michael Gleicher
Progressive Cut
Chao Wang, Qiong Yang, Mo Chen, Zhongfu Ye, Xiaoou Tang
2:00-3:30pm Arts Session 1: Installations and Media Archaeology
Session Chair: Alejandro Jaimes
Buzz: Telling Compelling Stories
Sara Owsley, Kristian Hammond, David Shamma, Sanjay Sood
Archeology of Multimedia
Fabrizio Nunnari, Vincenzo Lombardo, Andrea Valle, Francesco Giordana, Andrea Arghinenti
Instant Archaeologies: Digital Lenses to Probe and to Perforate the
Urban Fabric
Petra Gemeinboeck, Atau Tanaka, Andy Dong
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break (sponsored by FXPAL)
4:00-6:00pm Content 2: Machine Learning in Multimedia
Session Chair: Mohan Kankanhalli, Univ. of Singapore
Content-based Image Retrieval using More Expressive Salient Point Representations
Hui Zhang, Rouhollah Rahmani, Sharath Cholleti, Sally Goldman
Learning Image Manifolds by Semantic Subspace Projection
Jie Yu, Qi Tian
Learning from Facial Aging Patterns for Automatic Age Estimation
Xin Geng, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Yu Zhang, Gang Li, Honghua Dai
Efficient Top-k Hyperplane Query Processing for Multimedia Information Retrieval
Navneet Panda, Edward Chang
4:00-6:00pm Systems 1 Streaming
Session Chair: Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame University
Tavarua: Video Streaming with WWAN Striping
Asfandyar Qureshi, Jennifer Carlisle, John Guttag
Scalable Streaming for Heterogeneous Clients
Liqi Lishi, Phillipa Sessini, Anirban Mahanti, Zongpeng Li, Derek Eager
Towards Scalable Delivery of Video Streaming to Heterogeneous Receivers
Bashar Qudah, Nabil Sarhan
Scalable and Adaptive Streaming for Non-Linear Media
David Gotz
4:00-5:30pm Applications 2: Searching Media I
Session Chair: Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Research
EnjoyPhoto - A Vertical Image Search Engine for Enjoying High-Quality Photos
Lei Zhang, Le Chen, Feng Jing, Kefeng Deng, Wei-Ying Ma
IGroup: Web Image Search Results Clustering
Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
Extreme Video Retrieval: Joint Maximization of Human and Computer Performance
Alexander Hauptmann, Wei-Hao Lin, Rong Yan, Jun Yang, Mingyu Chen
7:00-9:00pm Conference Reception (sponsored by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts)
Location: California Nanosystems Institute at UCSB
Bus transportation will be provided
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
8:30-10:00am Applications 3: Entertainment & Home Environments
Session Chair: Dick Bulterman, CWI
Presence and Portrayal: Video for Casual Home Dialogues
David Chatting, Josie Galpin, Judith Donath
Edge Indexing in a Grid for Highly Dynamic Virtual Environments
Beomjoo Seo, Roger Zimmermann
Exploring Composite Acoustic Features for Efficient Music Similarity Query
Jialie Shen, Bin Cui, Gao Cong, Heng Tao Shen, Cui Yu
8:30-10:00am Content 3: Semantic Concepts
Session Chair: Alan Smeaton, Dublin City Univ.
The Challenge Problem for Automated Detection of 101 Semantic Concepts in Multimedia
Cees Snoek, Marcel Worring, Jan van Gemert, Jan-Mark Geusebroek, Arnold Smeulders
Player Action Recognition in Broadcast Tennis Video with Applications to Semantic Analysis of Sports Game
Guangyu Zhu, Changsheng Xu, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao, Liyuan Xing
Learning Concepts from Large Scale Imbalanced Data Sets Using Support Cluster Machines
Jinhui Yuan, Jianmin Li, Bo Zhang
8:30-10:00am Arts Session 2: Interactive Spaces and Performance
Session Chair: George Legrady, UC Santa Barbara
Choreographic Buttons: Promoting Social Interaction through Human Movement and Clear Affordances
Andrew Webb, Andruid Kerne, Eunyee Koh, Pranesh Joshi, YoungJoo Park, Ross
Graeber
Motion Swarms: Video Interaction for Art in Complex Environments
Quoc Nguyen, Jeffrey Boyd, Christian Jacob, Gerald Hushlak
Movement-based Interactive Dance Performance
Jodi James, Todd Ingalls, Gang Qian, Daniel Whiteley, Loren Olson, Siew Wong, Thanassis Rikakis
8:30am-noon Demo Session 1
Session Chair: Baochun Li, Univ. of Toronto
Eye/gaze Tracking in Web, Image and Video Documents
Chabane Djeraba, Stanislas Lew, Dan Simovici
Geelix.com: Sharing Gaming Experiences
Ole-Ivar Holthe, Leif Arne Rψnningen
Fotofiti: Web Service for Photo Management
Benjamin Lee, Wen-Yen Chen, Edward Y. Chang
Multimedia Thumbnails for Documents: Implementation and Demonstration
Berna Erol, Kathrin Berkner, Siddharth Joshi
Blazingly Fast Image Copyright Enforcement
Herwig Lejsek, Fridrik H. Αsmundsson, Bjφrn ήσr Jσnsson, Laurent Amsaleg
MAGICAL Demonstration: System for Metadata Automated Generation for Instructional Content
Chitra Dorai, Robert Farrell, Amy Katriel, Galina Kofman, Ying Li, Youngja Park
NNk Networks and Automated Annotation for Browsing Large Image Collections from the World Wide Web
Daniel Heesch, Alexei Yavlinsky, Stefan Ruger
Enabling Secure Distribution of Digital Media to SD-Cards
Dulce Ponceleon
IGroup: A Web Image Search Engine with Semantic Clustering of Search Results
Feng Jing, Changhu Wang, Yuhuan Yao, Kefeng Deng, Lei Zhang, Wei-Ying Ma
Event-Centric Multimedia Data Management for Reconnaissance Mission Analysis and Reporting
Utz Westermann, Srikanth Agaram, Bo Gong, Ramesh Jain
A Real-Time, Multimodal Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation
Yinpeng Chen, Weiwei Xu, Richard Isaac Wallis, Hari Sundaram, Thanassis Rikakis, Todd Ingalls, Loren Olson, Jiping He
3WNews: Who, Where, and When in News Video
Jun Yang, Alexander G. Hauptmann
3D TV Using MPEG-2 and H.264 View Coding and Autostereoscopic Displays
Lakis Christodoulou, Liam M. Mayron, Hari Kalva, Oge Marques, Borko Furht
PartyPeer: a P2P based Massively Multiplayer Online Game
Leslie S. Liu, Roger Zimmermann, Baoxuan Xiao, Jon Christen
10:00-10:30am Coffee break (sponsored by IBM)
10:30am-noon Arts Session 3: Tools for Creativity and Art Analysis
Session Chair: Lonce Wyse
Handheld Electronic Camera Flash Lamp as a Tangible User-Interface for Creating Expressive Visual Art Works.
Steve Mann, Corey Manders
Hydraulophone Design Considerations: Absement, Displacement, and Velocity-Sensitive Music Keyboard in which Each Key is a Water Jet
Steve Mann, Ryan Janzen, Mark Post
Semi-supervised Annotation of Brushwork in Paintings Domain using Serial
Combinations of Multiple Experts
Yelizaveta Marchenko, Tat-Seng Chua, Ramesh Jain
10:30am-noon Systems 2: Distributed Systems
Session Chair: David Gotz, IBM
Fundamental Scaling Laws of Peer-to-Peer Live Multimedia Streaming
Tara Small, Ben Liang, Baochun Li
DANS: Decentralized, Autonomous, and Network-wide Service Delivery and
Multimedia Workflow Processing
G. Kwon, Kasim Candan
Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Distributed On-line Video
Correlation System
Xiaohui Gu, Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin, Philip Yu
10:30am-noon Applications 4: Searching Media II
Session Chair: Qi Tian, UT San Antonio
Efficient Benchmarking of Content-based Image Retrieval via Resampling
Jialie Shen, Shepherd John
Virtual Observers in a Mobile Surveillance System
Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkatesh
Scalability of Local Descriptors: A Comparative Study
Herwig Lejsek, Fridrik Asmundsson, Bjφrn Jσnsson, Laurent Amsaleg
Noon-6:00pm: Interactive Arts Program Exhibition (at UCSB)
Shuttle vans available approximately hourly between hotel and UCSB
Noon-2:00pm Conference Lunch (sponsored by Google) and SIGMM Meeting
SIGMM meeting participants: Reagan Room
Others: Plaza Del Sol
Noon-4:00pm Short Papers Poster Session 2
Authors at posters 1:00-2:00pm and 3:30-4:00pm
Session Chair: Belle Tseng, NEC Labs
VirtualTour: An Online Travel Assistant Based on High Quality Images
Feng Jing
Audio Similarity Measure by Graph Modeling and Matching
Yuxin Peng
Image Annotation by Large-Scale Content-based Image Retrieval
Xirong Li
Mixed-Initiative Multimedia for Mobile Devices: Unified Design of User-Driven & System-Prompted Modalities
Jeannie Lee
PhotoArcs: Ludic Tools for Sharing Photographs
Morgan Ames
Inserting 3D Projected Virtual Content into Broadcast Tennis Video
Xinguo Yu
Manifold-Ranking Based Video Concept Detection on Large Database and Feature Pool
Xun Yuan
Towards Content-Based Relevance Ranking for Video Search
Wei Lai
Animation Movies Trailer Computation
Patrick Lambert
A Trustworthy End-to-end Key Management Scheme for Digital Rights Management
Yeonjeong Jeong
Detecting Irregularity in Videos Using Kernel Estimation and K-D Trees
Yun Li
User-friendly H.264/AVC for Real-Time Browsing
Pengpeng Ni
Image Annotation Refinement using Random Walk with Restarts
Changhu Wang
An Architecture for Viewer-Side Enrichment of TV Content
Dick Bulterman
Interactive Mosaic Generation for Video Navigation
Kihwan Kim
Syllabic Level Automatic Synchronization of Music Signals and Text Lyrics
Denny Iskandar
Automatic Detection of Player's Identity in Soccer Videos Using Faces and Text Cues
Marco Bertini
The Differential Structure of Sub Pixels Interpolated from Integer Pixels Using N-Tab FIR Filters for High Definition H.264 Video Encoding
Jinwuk Seok
Leveraging Community Annotations for Image Adaptation to Small Presentation Formats
Patrick Schmitz
Interactive Audio-Visual Video Browsing
Wolfgang Hόrst
Automatic Annotation and Semantic Retrieval of Video Sequences using Multimedia Ontologies
Marco Bertini
Mapping Learning in Eigenspace for Harmonious Caricature Generation
Junfa Liu
RITZ: a Real-time Tool for Interactive spatilZation
Joshua Nixdorf
Remote Rendering and Streaming of Progressive Panoramas for Remote Virtual Walkthrough on Mobile Devices
Azzedine Boukerche
The Influence of Cross-Validation on Video Classification Performance
Jan van Gemert
A Scalable Service for Photo Annotation, Sharing, and Search
Benjamin Lee
Semantic Image Retrieval Based on Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis
Amin Shah-Hosseini
Diversifying the Image Retrieval Results
Kai Song
Browsing Personal Media Archives with Spatial Context Using Panoramas
Brett Adams
Model Generation for Video-based Object Recognition
Humera Noor Yusuf
Measuring Movement Expertise in Surgical Tasks
Kanav Kahol
Collaborative Dancing in Teleimmersive
Zhenyu Yang
Reading the Fine Print: The Effect of Text Legibility on Perceived Video Quality in Mobile TV
Hendrik Knoche
Noon-4:00pm Arts Short Papers Poster Session 2
Authors at posters 1:00-2:00pm and 3:30-4:00pm
Session Chair: ???
User Authorship and Creativity within Interactivity
Karl Willis
Variations 10b: A Digital Realization of Cage's Variations II
Nicholas Knouf
Tabletop Community: Artwork for Visualization of Social Interactions Using a Bipartite Network
Noriyuki Fujimura, Satoshi Fujiyoshi, Tom Hope, Takuichi Nishimura
Taking Sides: Dynamic Text and Hip-Hop Performance
Jason Lewis, Yannick Assogba
The Computational Extraction Of Spatio-Temporal Formal Structures in the Interactive Dance Work 22
Hari Sundaram, Thanassis Rikakis, Jodi James, Vidyarani Dyaberi
2:00-3:30pm Panel Session: Multimedia and Web 2.0 - Hype, Challenge, Synergy
Session Chair: Susanne Boll, Univ. of Oldenburg
Panelists:
Edward Chang, Google R&D
Marc Davis, Yahoo
Patrick Schmitz, UC Berkeley
2:00-3:30pm Applications 5: Multimedia Applications Potpourri
Session Chair: Jan Pieper, IBM
Electronic Clipping System with Invisible Barcodes
Koichi Kamijo, Noboru Kamijo, Masaharu Sakamoto
The Design of a Real-Time, Multimodal Biofeedback System for Stroke Patient Rehabilitation
Hari Sundaram, Yinpeng Chen, Thanassis Rikakis
Video Object Segmentation by Motion-based Sequential Feature Clustering
Mei Han, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong
2:00-3:30pm Brave New Topics Session 1: Multimedia Signal Processing and Systems in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Session Chair: Nevenka Dimitrova, Philips Corporation
Personalized Concept-Based Multimedia Health Records: Opportunities and Challenges
Shahram Ebadollahi, Shih-Fu Chang, Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood, Anni Coden, Arnon Amir, Michael A. Tanenblatt
Multimedia Signal Processing for Behavioral Quantification in Neuroscience
Peter Andrews, Sigal Saar, Haibin Wang, Dan Valente, Jihene Serkhane, Ofer Tchernichovski2, Ilan Golani3, Partha Mitra1
Analysis and Visualization of DNA Spectrograms: Open Possibilities for the Bioinformatics Research
Nevenka Dimitrova, Yee Him Cheung, Michael Zhang
2:00-5:30pm Demo Session 2
Session Chair: Raju Rangaswami, Florida International Univ.
Large-Scale News Video Retrieval via Visualization
Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan, Yuli Gao, Shinichi Satoh, William Ribarsky
The MediaMill Large-lexicon Concept Suggestion Engine
Marcel Worring, Cees G.M. Snoek, Bouke Huurnink, Jan van Gemer t, Dennis Koelma, Ork de Rooij
MOM: Multimedia Ontology Manager. A Framework for Automatic Annotation and Semantic Retrieval of Video Sequences
Marco Bertini, Alber to Del Bimbo, Carlo Torniai, Rita Cucchiara, Costantino Grana
Metadata Production Framework and Metadata Editor
Masanori Sano, Yoshihiko Kawai, Hideki Sumiyoshi, Nobuyuki Yagi
Mobile Camera Supported Document Redirection
Qiong Liu, Paul McEvoy
PEANO: Pictorial Enriched ANnotation of VideO
C. Grana, R. Vezzani, D. Bulgarelli, G.Gualdi, R. Cucchiara, M. Bertini, C. Torniai, A. Del Bimbo
ZooMICSS: A Zoomable Map Image Collection Sensemaking System (The Katrina Rita Context)
Ross Graeber, Andruid Kerne, M. Kathryn Henderson
International Remix: Video Editing for the Web
Patrick Schmitz, Peter Shafton, Ryan Shaw, Samantha Tripodi, Brian Williams, Jeannie Yang
Speakr: Auditory Skimming and Scrolling
S H Srinivasan
3dB: A System for Geometric Tagging
Subhajit Sanyal, S H Srinivasan
Fotowiki - Distributed Map Enhancement Service
Wen-Yen Chen, Ben N Lee, Edward Y Chang
GLS: Simulator for Online Multi-player Games
Wladimir Palant, Carsten Griwodz, Pεl Halvorsen
Interfaces for Interactive Audio-Visual Media Browsing
Wolfgang Hόrst, Tobias Lauer, Robert Kashuba
A System for 3D Projected Virtual Content Insertion into Broadcast Tennis Video
Xin Yan, Xinguo Yu, Tran Thi Phuong Chi
Searching and Browsing Large Scale Image Database Using Keywords and Ontology
Yuli Gao, Hangzai Luo, Jianping Fan
Vocal Telekinesis; Physical Control of Inanimate Objects with Minimal Paralinguistic Voice Input
Sama'a Al Hashimi, Gordon Davies
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break (sponsored by IBM)
4:00-6:00pm Content 4: Event and Copy Detection
Session Chair: James Wang, Penn State Univ.
Visual Attention Detection in Video Sequences Using Spatiotemporal Cues
Yun Zhai, Mubarak Shah
Towards Optimal Audio "Keywords" Detection for Audio Content Analysis and Discovery
Lie Lu, Alan Hanjalic
Robust Voting Algorithm Based on Labels of Behavior for Video Copy Detection
Julien Law-To, Olivier Buisson, Valιrie Gouet-Brunet, Nozha Boujemaa
Fast Tracking of Near-Duplicate Keyframes in Broadcast Domain with Transitivity Propagation
Chong-Wah Ngo, Wanlei Zhao, Yu-Gang Jiang
4:00-6:00pm Brave New Topics Session 2: Human-Centered Multimedia
Session Chair: Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam
Human-Centered Computing: A Multimedia Persepctive
Alejandro Jaimes, Nicu Sebe, Daniel Gatica-Perez
Human Computing for Interactive Digital Media
Alex Pentland, Jonathan Gips, Wen Dong, Will Stoltzman
Human-Centered Design Meets Cognitive Load Theory: Designing
Interfaces that Help People Think
Sharon Oviatt
Multimedia Production and Human-Centered Computing
Marc Davis
4:00-5:30pm Doctoral Symposium
Session chair: Yi Wu, Intel Corp.
A Multi-Stream Adaptation Framework for Tele-immersion
Zhenyu Yang
Large-scale Video Retrieval via Semantic Classification
Hangzai Luo
Rate-Accuracy Tradeoff in Automated, Distributed Video Surveillance Systems
Pavel Korshunov
7:00-9:00pm Conference Banquet
Thursday, October 26, 2006
8:30-10:00am Keynote presentation
Session Chair: Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Implicit Participation
Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo!
10:00-10:30am Coffee break (sponsored by Yahoo! Research)
10:30am-noon Content 5: Image Annotation
Session Chair: Lynn Wilcox, FXPAL
SmartLabel: A Object Labeling Tool using Iterated Harmonic Energy Minimization
Wen Wu, Jie Yang
Automatic Image Annotation by Incorporating Feature Hierarchy and Boosting to Scale-up SVM Classifier Training
Jianping Fan, Ramesh Jain
Real-time Computerized Annotation of Pictures
Jia Li, James Wang
10:30am-noon Systems 3: Assorted Topics
Session Chair: Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, UT Dallas
Event on Demand with MPEG-21 Video Adaptation System
Min Xu, Jiaming Li, Liang-Tien Chia, Jesse Jin, Yiqun Hu, Bu Sung Lee, Deepu Rajan
Very Low Complexity MPEG-2 to H.264 Transcoding Using Machine Learning
Gerardo Fernandez-Escribano, Hari Kalva, Pedro Cuenca, Luis Orozco-Barbosa
Modelling Dependency in Multimedia Streams
Alexander Eichhorn
10:30am-noon Open Source and Video Program
Session Chair: Scott Brandt, UC Santa Cruz, and Wu-Chi Feng, Portland State Univ.
[Open Source Winner]
CLAM: C++ Library for Audio and Music
Xavier Amatriain, Pau Arumi, David Garcia
Audiovisual Slideshow: Present Your Journey by Photos
Jun-Cheng Chen, Wei-Ta Chu, Jin-Hau Kuo, Chung-Yi Weng, Ja-Ling Wu1
Automatic Scaling and Cropping of Videos for Devices with Limited Screen Resolution
Stephan Kopf, Fleming Lampi, Thomas King, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Globe4D, Time-Traveling with an Interactive Four-Dimensional Globe
Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk, Danica Mast
Virtual Videography
Rachel Heck, Michael Wallick, Michael Gleicher
Video Color Adaptation for Mobile Devices
Stephan Kopf, Thomas King, Fleming Lampi, Wolfgang Effelsberg
Video Inpainting and Implant via Diversified Temporal Continuations
Timothy K. Shih, Nick C. Tang, Wei-Sung Yeh, Ta-Jen Chen
Noon-6:00pm: Interactive Arts Program Exhibition (at UCSB)
Shuttle vans available approximately hourly between hotel and UCSB
Noon-2:00pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00-3:30pm Content 6: Multimedia Exploration
Session Chair: Apostol Natsev, IBM TJ Watson
Automatic Video Annotation by Semi-supervised Learning with Kernel Density Estimation
Meng Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, Yan Song, Xun Yuan, Li Shipeng, Hong-Jiang Zhang
Toward Bridging the Annotation-Retrieval Gap in Image Search
Ritendra Datta, Weina Ge, Jia Li, James Wang
Extraction of social context and application to personal multimedia exploration
Brett Adams, Dinh Phung, Svetha Venkatesh
2:00-5:30pm MIR Workshop
3:30-4:00pm Coffee break (sponsored by Yahoo! Research)
4:00-5:30pm Discussion: Foundations and Directions of Multimedia Research
Session Chair: Matthew Turk, UCSB, and Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
Friday, October 27, 2006
8:30am-5:30pm Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2006)
8:30am-5:30pm Workshop on Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences (CARPE 2006)
8:30am-5:30pm Workshop on Multimedia Content Protection and Security (MCPS 2006)
8:30am-5:30pm Workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM 2006)
8:30am-5:30pm Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (VSSN 2006)
8:30am-5:30pm Workshop on Audio and Music Computing for Multimedia (AMCMM 2006)
Noon-6:00pm: Interactive Arts Program Exhibition (at UCSB)